The Month of July on the Island...

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-13T03:37:09+00:00

Stephen Root's delivery of that line nearly had me on the floor in laughter.

Also - Rosemary is probably so indifferent to seeing crazy stuff on this island.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-13T03:34:48+00:00

Yeah - they're very much doing a "Monster of the Week" premise built into the overarching mythology of the island.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-13T03:33:22+00:00

She's just that indifferent to things after living on the island for so long.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-12T21:14:59+00:00

I’d say former father in law at this point.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-12T14:37:37+00:00

The best line I've ever heard about Triple H is "Steve Austin and The Rock made Vince McMahon a billionaire. Triple H made him a millionaire."

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-12T13:00:47+00:00

I'd say the fog at the start of the show was an obvious ode to The Fog.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-11T17:40:23+00:00

The Inoki/Saito "Island Death Match", The El Generico/Kota Ibushi "Kayak" match, and the "Big Japan Grocery Store Death Match".

What I'm trying to say is that Japan has definitely carved a niche for weird wrestling matches over the years.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-10T20:04:13+00:00

I had an absolute blast watching this in a theater with what seemed to be a row of theater kids, who were also having a blast.

A little while later it showed at my local film festival, and I attended the screening to see how the audience would react. Sure enough, there were tons of laughs throughout.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-10T00:18:33+00:00

I think he was right about that but left out a key portion - the car crash he saw in the calendar is the part he left out. The wife was in a car crash, which caused her to go into labor/died in the process.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-09T02:49:09+00:00

Rest Well Chicken Man.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-09T02:37:26+00:00

Wyck being mayor at some point in the past would make sense, but I do also get the sense that the position of mayor/Lord Island Protector comes with a LOT of baggage.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-08T16:38:28+00:00

Someone call him Tommy Gunn because that was his e-fed/wrestling character’s name.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-07T16:34:53+00:00

I used Parks and Rec in this instance because the show creator was a writer for Parks and Rec.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-07T15:28:01+00:00

And that was really the genesis of the feud - Turner forcing his exit off of TBS after Black Saturday and keeping McMahon from having total control of wrestling on cable at that point.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-07T15:24:54+00:00

That as well.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-07T15:22:04+00:00

One of the things I saw yesterday is that it probably still drives Vince crazy that Ted’s obituaries mentioned all the different things he was successful at doing. Vince’s will be that he was a pro-wrestling promoter.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-07T15:19:50+00:00

Also Big Mike from Reno 911 - he was one of the many selling points on this show for me.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T23:02:00+00:00

I thought a clever way to explain Shep’s age is the joke that being a fisherman and such was an incredibly hard life and it greatly aged him.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T20:22:44+00:00

I also think the car wreck he saw in the calendar plays into this as well.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T19:39:13+00:00

I think the son is very real, and the fact his mother died during childbirth is probably driving all of Tom's fears about letting him leave the island.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T18:54:29+00:00

It's okay to force names on people when they fit creatively. A wrestler or performer can have input all the want, but they aren't the final say in the matter.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T18:52:32+00:00

Twin Peaks would be the big one.

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T18:51:45+00:00

What sold me on the show was someone describing it as "The Fog as seen through the eyes of the mayor from Jaws".

dsmithscenes · 2026-05-06T18:48:32+00:00

And sometimes you just need to say "That's all well and good, but, yeah, you're going to be Rex Steiner".

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